Holidays

I needed a break from RISC OS coding, so as a holiday project I started a completely meaningless project that no one cares about.

EGS is a windowing system for Amiga that came with the Spectrum graphiccards. It wasn’t rtg , so apps needed to be coded for it. It look a lot like Motif, but more pretty.

I don’t have one of the original cards , but the system also includes a generic Amiga driver.

I recently got a MiSTer FPGA system , that sports a MiniMig core among others.

I got that wild feeling when I started to tinker with Amiga and EGS: Why not write programs for it?!

The system was never popular back in the days , but there is a SDK available.

So , what should I program? A browser! I am doing it from scratch , just borrowing the basic parser from Mosaic.
Screenshot:

Video:

https://twitter.com/QtARM/status/1341184314000760832

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

needed a break from RISC OS coding

Just before the OWB release ;)

So , what should I program? A browser! I am doing it from scratch , just borrowing the basic parser from Mosaic.
Screenshot:

Fun and cool!

hey! Nice and good old memories :D

and Merry Christmas to you too Michael!

Urgh, shudders at the Motif widgets. Early X11 windowing was so over complicated and difficult to use compared to the Wimp.

Nice project! Happy holidays to you too!

Early X11 windowing was so over complicated and difficult to use compared to the Wimp.

Every X11 dev I met has been a firm supporter of the move to Wayland. ;)

I did have to write a small application using X11 in the mid-1990’s. I still shudder at the memory.